TABLE OF CON TEN TS
WINTER
L AST Q UARTER 2014
INTRODUCTION
Prologue xii
Editor's Note xiv
Epigraph: Ernest Shackleton, xvi
Passive Youth by Frances Gapper 35
No Alternative By John C. Mannone 37
Fifteen by John C. Mannone 38
There Were Balloons by Cathy S. Ulrich 64
SHORT STORIES
Come Back Out by Michael McGlade 3
Once They're Gone, They Keep Goiing by Mir-Yashar
Seyedbagheri 19
Archie and Grandma Bond by Bill Frank Robinson 87
There Were Balloons by Cathy S. Ulrich 64
PEGASUS by Mara Buck 65
CNF
SYNONYMS, dishearten, dispirit, deject 17
POETRY
Editorial (Outside the Inn by Ron. Lavalette), by Oonah
Joslin 43
A Few Thoughts On The Soul by Constance Brewer 47
AUTUMN RHYTHMS (by Jackson Pollack) by Martin
Burke 45
bitter, despite the creamer by Joshua A Colwell 46
Childhood on the River Circa 1960 by Ronald E.
Shields 47
Lament for When I Did Not by Mary Lee 48
Columibade by Jane Burn 49
Lost Laundry by Katheen Cassen Michelson 50
Marbled Chocolate by Máire Morrissey-Cummins 52
Meeting point by Nick Bowman 53
Memory Games by Constance Brewer 54
Naked Beauty by Kathleen Cassen Mickelson 55
Skellig Michael by Mary Lee 56
Penance by Máire Morrissey-Cummins 57
Soul Skating by Julie Hogg 58
The Moment by Ronald E. Shields 59
NOVELLA EXCERPT
VOX by Jan De Wilde 70
BOOK REVIEW
Marie Fitzpatrick: The Blue Box by Jürgen Olschewski 33
FLASH FICTION
French Knitting by Elizabeth Hopkinson 1
SPANISH SECTION
Rapunzel 12
MICRO
Venus Still Shines Even After Fifty Years by John C.
Mannone 31
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